In Marie Clay's book, Running Records, she discusses ways for teachers to keep track of student's reading and the notes that should be made to indicate certain assessments. In other words, it's "shorthand" for teachers when assessing children. These notes not only help the teacher understand what the student struggles with, but how they think while reading. For instance, if a student struggles with a word, do they completely skip it as a whole, sound it out, or repeat it? This approach helps teachers agree on one (of many ways) to read notes and assessments done by themselves or other teachers!
Here is a running record calculator! You type in the # of words in the text, and then the # of errors and self-corrections. It is a helpful way to "score" a student and see what reading level is appropriate for them.
http://www.wordcalc.com/runningrecord/
I really like your running records calculator! After learning how to take records, this would be a quick and easy way to count them and develop a scoring system. Thanks for sharing this tool!
ReplyDeleteI also really enjoyed the website for the running record calculator. It will be a very useful tool to use within my classroom!! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great tool! I realized just how difficult it can be to take running records when we did it as a class. Something like this website could really help knock a little time off of the process.
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